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Ivy Litvinov

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 04, 1889

Died

April 16, 1977

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Ivy Therese Low Litvinov (Russian: Айви Вальтеровна Литвинова) (4 June 1889 – 16 April 1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator, and wife of Soviet diplomat and foreign minister Maxim Litvinov. She was also known as Ivy Low, Ivy Litvinova or Ivy Litvinoff.

She was born into an Anglo-Jewish family. Her father Walter was a friend of H. G. Wells. In 1894 her father died, and in 1896 her mother Alice remarried to John Alexander (Sandy) Herbert, and published some novels under the name Alice Herbert. Early in 1916 Ivy Low married Maxim Litvinov, who at the time was a revolutionary exile living in London. They had two children, Mikhail (Misha) and Tatiana (Tanya).

Following the Russian Revolution Maxim returned home in 1918, and she follo Ivy Therese Low Litvinov (Russian: Айви Вальтеровна Литвинова) (4 June 1889 – 16 April 1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator, and wife of Soviet diplomat and foreign minister Maxim Litvinov. She was also known as Ivy Low, Ivy Litvinova or Ivy Litvinoff.

She was born into an Anglo-Jewish family. Her father Walter was a friend of H. G. Wells. In 1894 her father died, and in 1896 her mother Alice remarried to John Alexander (Sandy) Herbert, and published some novels under the name Alice Herbert. Early in 1916 Ivy Low married Maxim Litvinov, who at the time was a revolutionary exile living in London. They had two children, Mikhail (Misha) and Tatiana (Tanya).

Following the Russian Revolution Maxim returned home in 1918, and she followed him two years later. Maxim Litvinov became a prominent diplomat and served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (foreign minister) from 1930 to 1939, and Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1941 to 1943. He died in 1951, having survived the purges of nearly all of his closest colleagues despite having fallen out of favour with Stalin on more than one occasion.

Apart from brief stays abroad as part of her husband's diplomatic service, she lived in the Soviet Union for most of her adult life before moving permanently to Hove, England in 1972. She died in 1977. Looking back on the precarious situation that Maxim and Ivy had faced in the Stalin era, George Kennan wrote "It is one of the wonders of the age that Ivy survived to die a natural death."

Ivy Low wrote the novels Growing Pains in 1913 and The Questing Beast in 1914, as well as His Master’s Voice: a Detective Story in 1930. She also wrote about a dozen short stories published in The New Yorker magazine beginning in the 1960s. A collection of short stories was published in book form as She Knew She Was Right.

She produced numerous translations of Russian literature into English, and also wrote or edited reference books for Russian-speaking learners of English. In the 1930s she supported the teaching of Basic English.

She was an early fan of D. H. Lawrence and spent six weeks visiting him and his soon-to-be wife Frieda in Tuscany in 1914. Later in life, she visited Stanford University while her husband was Soviet ambassador to the US, and spent a couple of days reading the university's collection of Lawrence's papers. She found "amusing references" to herself in his letters. In 1946 she wrote the article "A visit to D.H. Lawrence" in Harper's Bazaar. ...more

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	The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, Ivy Litvinov (Translator), Tatiana Litvinov (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 28,946 ratings — published 1836 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov, Ivy Litvinov (Translator), Constance Garnett (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 11,329 ratings — published 1888 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tales of Ivan Belkin by Alexander Pushkin, Ivy Litvinov (Translator), Tatiana Litvinov (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 6,358 ratings — published 1831 — 193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev, Valentin Popov (Illustrator), Ivy Litvinov (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 5,941 ratings — published 1872 — 656 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin, Ivy Litvinov (Translator), Tatiana Litvinov (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 5,072 ratings — published 1841	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Knew She Was Right by Ivy Litvinov, Neville Braybrooke (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Masters Voice: A Detective Story 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1930 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning by Ivy Litvinov, M M (Maksim Maksimovich) Litvinov (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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